Friday Links List - 12 March 2021

ATTEND: I'll be speaking at the Blue Ridge Writer's Conference on April 9th-10th. Join me?

From Good News Network: Indie Bookstore Saved by Hilarious Super Bowl Ad, Thanks to Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert

From The NY Times: Norton Juster, Who Wrote ‘The Phantom Tollbooth,’ Dies at 91

From Esquire: A Dr. Seuss Expert Cuts Through the Noise on the Cancel Culture Controversy "Dr. Philip Nel unpacks the ongoing conversation about modernizing and curating Seuss' legacy, and explains why 'curation is not cancellation."

From Phil Nel directly: Seuss, Racism, and Resources for Anti-Racist Children’s Literature

From SLJ's 100 Scope Notes: The Seuss Post

From SLJ: 10 YA Graphic Novels About the LGBTQIA+ experience | Stellar Panels

From National Geographic: Warrior queens, fairies and feuding clans: exploring legends on Scotland's Isle of Skye

From Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: From the Wild Hunt to the Fairy Rade

From The University of Edinburgh: FAIRY FEVER IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

From Brightly: 12 Picture Book Biographies of Truly Amazing Women



ILLUSTRATORS' TREEHOUSE NEWS
From Diamond Bookshelf: Comic Book News

From SLJ's 100 Scope Notes: 2021 Books from Caldecott Winners

COOL Illustration Tool - animal skulls from different angles

From CommArts: Remaining A Cultural Critic

From The Bologna Book Fair: THE 2021 SELECTED ILLUSTRATORS

From The New York Times: 7 Questions, 75 Artists, 1 Very Bad Year

From Print and Pattern: Kids Design - White Stuff (one of my fave retail stores)

SCBWI announces its 2021 Winter Conference Portfolio Showcase Grand Prize Winners: Li Xin and Leanne Hatch

From Smithsonian Magazine: One Hundred Museums Transformed Their Collections Into Free Coloring Pages

From NPR: Photographers Make Kids' Wildest Dreams Come To Life

Are you familiar with the work of David Galchutt?

From Muddy Colors:
     WHY WE PAINT: A PERSONAL PROCESS with Chris Beatrice (Wow!)
     Drawing Dragons with Donato (video demo)
     My Process by Robert Hunt VR what VR with Justin Coro Kaufman

From The Art Room Plant: Victoria Semykina VI

From CommArts: Amnistie internationale Canada francophone posters




OFF TOPIC BUT INTERESTING
From The Atlantic: Winners of the 2020 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest (like this one by Jon Anderson)


The Brownstone from the movie Moonstruck is for sale!

From Forbes: The World Needs Neurodiversity: Unusual Times Call For Unusual Thinking

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why Haven’t More Colleges Closed?

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